Meccano

Author Information

Roger Marriott received his first Meccano set at the age of eleven and, like many boys, was immediately fascinated by the possibilities of building functioning models. A visit from a nephew about 20 years later led to a revival of interest in both model building with Meccano and collecting Meccano products. Now retired from Her Majesty's Inspection and a career in adult education, he remains captivated by the inventive possibilities of the play that grows with the boy.

Summary

It has been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to entertain his sons and named it Meccano, a word that has entered the vocabulary and is now known worldwide. Hornby's vision of an educational toy became the foundation of perhaps the most successful British toy company of the twentieth century.